Cognitive Neuroscience Books

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61. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication

    By Vesna Mildner

    This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language are its central topic, it provides information...

    Published October 11th 2007 by Psychology Press
62. The Handbook of Aging and Cognition

    Third Edition

    Edited by Fergus I. M. Craik, Timothy A. Salthouse

    Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past ten years. This new edition reviews new findings and theories, enables the reader to assess where the field is...

    Published October 8th 2007 by Psychology Press
63. Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception

    Edited by John J. Rieser, Daniel H. Ashmead, Ford Ebner, Anne L. Corn

    Research into the development of sensory structures in the brains of blind or visually-impaired individuals has opened a window into important ways in which the mind works. In these individuals, the part of the brain that is usually devoted to processing visual information is given over to...

    Published August 9th 2007 by Psychology Press
64. Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain

    Inference and Comprehension Processes

    Edited by Franz Schmalhofer, Charles A. Perfetti

    Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a groundbreaking book that explains how behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the study of human comprehension. The volume illustrates the most comprehensive and newest findings on the topic. Each section...

    Published March 4th 2007 by Psychology Press
65. Statistical and Process Models for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging

    Edited by Michael J. Wenger, Christof Schuster

    Series: Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology

    Statistical and Process Models for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging addresses methodological techniques for researching cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, the biophysics and structure of the nervous system, the physiology of memory, and the analysis of EEG data. Each chapter, written by the...

    Published January 29th 2007 by Psychology Press
66. Data Analytic Techniques for Dynamical Systems

    Edited by Steven M Boker, Michael J. Wenger

    Series: Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology

    Each volume in the Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology features leading methodologists and substantive experts who provide instruction on innovative techniques designed to enhance quantitative skills in a substantive area. This latest volume focuses on the methodological issues and...

    Published January 29th 2007 by Psychology Press
67. Automaticity and Control in Language Processing

    Edited by Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon, Andrea Krott

    Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science

    The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day-to-day life. Language often co-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated. This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understanding them are...

    Published December 13th 2006 by Psychology Press
68. Cognitive Reserve

    Theory and Applications

    Edited by Yaakov Stern

    Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

    Cognitive reserve has emerged as a powerful concept for interpreting individual differences in susceptibility to, and recovery from, brain injury or pathology. Underlying cognitive reserve is the idea that individual differences in how cognitive tasks are mediated in the brain allow some people to...

    Published October 29th 2006 by Psychology Press
69. Associative Illusions of Memory

    False Memory Research in DRM and Related Tasks

    By David Gallo

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    The last decade has seen a flurry of experimental research into the neurocognitive underpinnings of illusory memories. Using simple materials and tests (e.g., recalling words or pictures), methods such as the famed Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task have attracted considerable attention. These...

    Published August 27th 2006 by Psychology Press
70. Progress in Psychological Science around the World. Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues.

    Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology

    Edited by Qicheng Jing, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Gery d'Ydewalle, Houcan Zhang, Hsuan-Chih Chen, Kan Zhang

    Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and...

    Published July 26th 2006 by Psychology Press